Pompano pain clinic doctor arrested on drug charges

SUNRISE — Broward sheriff's undercover investigators arrested a pain clinic doctor on Saturday night on drug charges after they say they found the doctor carrying oxycodone pills and a liquid form of the drug for which he did not have prescriptions.

Officials said Dr. Steven Brown, 45, was about to swallow two 30 milligram oxycodone pills in his top-down convertible outside a fast food restaurant in the 9900 block of West Oakland Park Boulevard when the investigators approached him. There, they found a pill bottle that had someone else's name on it, containing 48 oxycodone pills, and an unlabeled bottle of Oxydose, a liquid form of oxycodone, officials said.

Brown, who lives in Sunny Isles Beach and works at Pompano Pain Management, 605 E. Atlantic Blvd., in Pompano Beach, was charged with possession of oxycodone and trafficking in oxycodone.

The arrest, Brown's first in Florida, automatically triggers an investigation by the Florida Department of Health, which could suspend or revoke Brown's medical license.